Most 'epic' song?

[Roddy]

What's yours? Not necessarily the longest (although epic length certainly helps!), but the one the most epic 'feel' to it?

It's virtually impossible to narrow it to just one, but I'm gunna go out on a ledge and give it to Devin Townsend's 'Earth Day'. At 9 minutes, it ain't the longest ever, but the feel is unbelievably epic. Enormous song.

Special mentions to:

Rush: Hemispheres and Xanadu
Dream Theater: Octavarium and Change of Seasons (which clocks in at a lazy 24 minutes)
Opeth: The Grand Conjuration and Blackwater Park
Nightwish: Ghost Love Score
Iron Maiden: Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Machine Head: Halo
Metallica: Call of Ktulu
And many more....

 

[Bazzar]

Iron Butterfly - In a Gadda Davida

 

[Upgrayedd]

Gay Bar-Electric 6

 

[Skeppersap]

Faith No More - Epic.

 

[Skeppersap]

but seriously.......Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the vast oceans

 

[Bazzar]

Tubular Bells

 

[legitimatic]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
November Rain
The Last Stand of Achilles
Machine Gun
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (live)
Free Bird
Lateralus
Stairway
Bohemian Rhapsody although not overly long is an epic to me.

And how could I forget Hallowed Be Thy Name, bloody epic.

 

[collo21]

I'm So afraid- Fleetwood Mac

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stairway-Zep (as overplayed and overated as it is)

 

[Bomber32]

American Pie - Don McLean.

 

[Constipated Duck]

What's yours? Not necessarily the longest (although epic length certainly helps!), but the one the most epic 'feel' to it?

It's virtually impossible to narrow it to just one, but I'm gunna go out on a ledge and give it to Devin Townsend's 'Earth Day'. At 9 minutes, it ain't the longest ever, but the feel is unbelievably epic. Enormous song.

Good get. My personal favourite is Manowar's "Achilles" of "The Triumph of Steel". A 28 minute summary of Homer's epic poem "The Iliad". Can't get more epic than that, really.

Also, Iron Maiden's "Alexander The Great", plus lots of other Steve Harris-penned tunes

 

[The_Eagles]

Jane's Addiction - 3 Days
Tool - Lateralus
Fleetwood Mac - Sara
Fanfare for the Common Man - Emerson Lake and Palmers cover

 

[Portmanteau]

Arcade Fire - No Cars Go, Neighbourhood #1, Wake Up

 

[johnnyhoward]

Clubbed to Death.

No Cars Go I'd agree with, when I first heard that song I thought it was pretty average but it's grown on me.

 

[crownie]

Estranged - Gunners

 

[crownie]

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
November Rain
The Last Stand of Achilles
Machine Gun
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (live)
Free Bird
Lateralus
Stairway
Bohemian Rhapsody although not overly long is an epic to me.

And how could I forget Hallowed Be Thy Name, bloody epic.

great ending

 

[legitimatic]

great ending

Man those last two minutes are two of the best two minutes I have ever heard in the ending of a song.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

The Extended Version of Meatloaf-"I would do anything for love"

And Chicane-"Saltwater" the 9 minute version of that

 

[Medhurst Magic]

Metallica - One

The rest are streets behind

 

[plowking]

November Rain and Dance With the Devil.

 

[ChrisL#12]

"Purple Rain" closely followed by "Do You Feel Like We Do?"

 

[saintal]

Good thread.

My fav would be "In the shadow of our pale companion" by Agalloch. 15 odd minutes of metal beauty. Lyrics that suit the journey.


a few apologies:

Opeth- Bleak, Deliverance
Dream theater- A change of seasons, stream of conciousness, Finally free
Pain of salvation-Trace of blood, beyond the pale, martius/nauticus II
Metallica- One
Smashing Pumpkins- disarm (only 3.5 min song )
Porcupine tree- Arriving somewhere but not here
Live- White Discussion

 

[coxon]

paranoid android

 

[finrod]

paranoid android

I agree...

Also, The Mars Volta also write some pretty long tunes... I had an mp3 from them which was 17MB.

 

[finrod]

The Extended Version of Meatloaf-"I would do anything for love"

We are talking about epic songs, not "worst songs ever written"!!

 

[Conan Troutman]

Cult of Luna - Dark City, Dead Man
Fear Factory - Resurrection
Metallica - One
Guns N Roses - November Rain
Strapping Young Lad - Skeksis
Tool - Third Eye
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary
In The Woods... - Yearning The Seeds of a New Dimension
In The Woods... - The Divinty of Wisdom
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Manowar - Bridge of Death
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys
Anathema - Crestfallen
Novembre - Sirens in Filth
Amorphis - My Kantele (Acoustic Reprise)
Cathedral - The Voyage of the Homeless Sapien (22mins)
Agalloch - Not Unlike The Waves
My Dying Bride - The Crown of Sympathy
Gamma Ray - Heading for Tomorrow
Jesu - Silver
Old Man's Child - Towards Eternity

Manowar - March for Revenge (By the Soldiers of Death)
Manowar - Battle Hymn
Manowar - Guyana (Cult of the Damned)
etc, etc, etc - there's too many from Manowar

too many good epic songs in general too - found it hard to stop listing them

#1 easily for me is 'Dark City, Dead Man' - The change at around 9mins until the end (15mins) is awesome.